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Early in the morning
I wanted to send you something
for when you wake;
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Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.
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His eyes are closed yet restless, as if too many thoughts loop beneath the lids.
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We were talking in the dark in my room. He lay on a mattress on the floor. He came for a sleepover.
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...he was suddenly and hazily relieved that he had something in Persepolis and blue agave plants to talk to her about.
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There are stranded people just like us, that's Not necessarily what I'm looking for. Negativity won't pull us through the Barbed-wire halls of hate. And even if I Was the only one, I wouldn't want you To look any different in the mirror. I'm older …
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I can’t deny you’re beautiful, though it’s unsure how many of your defects are fudged by my myopia.
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I hope you enjoyed the celebration last night. Good things always come to you. I thought your family would never go home. I didn't get to sleep this morning until 2:59, although I had set my alarm to 6:10. I didn't want you to miss your plane. At daybreak,…
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He invited her in for a Martini and she graciously accepted.
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my love for you/ is like the falling snow
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You left paint and blood smeared on the wall.
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I'm hearing a noise. I can't see it. It's hiding and seems to be coming from the other side of the creek. With boots on I slowly wade across. The water makes its light lapping sounds. Reaching the bank, I search for the noise. It must have a face, suntanned and warm, that I…
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Today I’m feeling crabby and haggard and technology makes it easy to get to the point.
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I'm not sure whetherI drink to numbthe pain or toactually feelsomething.
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His eyes are wide then narrow and brown. Hers are gray then they look away, toward the back door where a delivery driver has walked in, carrying a tray. Nothing is going to happen today.
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It was the dead of winter. I took my father's shotgun from his closet. He kept it wrapped up in one of those khaki-colored gun tote bags that had a zipper running the whole length of the gun. It was a 16-gauge, single action shotgun. Anyone could tell wha
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Kerryn saved us from ourselves really. Would you be reading this had she eaten it?
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I am i said pursued by the feeling of being watched.You are she said -- by yourself. As in a dream, a dream you know you're dreaming. Which changes nothing.We are she said watching from the mezzanine, half-above, at once a part and apart.
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The summer I turned fourteen I had a job babysitting our neighbor, Pam's three year old daughter, Annie, three nights a week while Pam was going to Junior College, but it was hardly work because, after I tucked Annie in to sleep, I just watched TV, sitting in Pam's den…
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This time the mountain climber does not attain the summit.
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Safe does not ride horses at sunsetSnorkel in MolokaiRaft down a swollen river.It does not steal kisses in a darkened theaterTouch the inside of a thigh under a restaurant table.Safe does not declare war.It chooses dinner every night at sixMass every SundayConfession once a…
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Maybe it takes as much fortitude
To forget
As it does
To remember.
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A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
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The laptop has ruined the sanctity of the library. And so I get up and go see Queen Jane.
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Miracles don’t happen to the poor.
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Wile E. Coyote? A junkie strung out on bunk dope.
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One could count fifty moons hanging in the sky, in rows and columns of smaller skies.
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A dead deer on the side of the road and the older boys not listening to her as they stab its eye with a stick.
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